Taylor Mac's Ziggy/tiny Tim Show Hits London

Loveliness is everywhere…

Time Out London has given Taylor Mac‘s latest presentation, Comparison Is Violence or The Ziggy Stardust Meets Tiny Tim Songbook, Critic’s Choice in the current issue. Here’s what they say about it…

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After years of enduring the ‘Ziggy Stardust meets Tiny Tim’ tag, Taylor Mac embraces it in what promises to be a typically gorgeous show: Mac tackles Bowie’s full album plus some of Tim’s numbers, bound together with musings on the nature of comparisons in contemporary cultural discourse. Highly recommended.

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Taylor’s show begins a five-night run at London’s Soho Comedy & Cabaret Theatre on June 1st and Time Out New York has already described him as: ‘One of the most exciting theatre artists of our time’.

The New Yorkers among you may have already caught this performance when it recently opened in The Big Apple…if that’s still a term for New York?

You can read a review of the show from Joe’s Pub in New York on May 21st here, but if you intend to go and see it in London, the review obviously contains spoilers…as does this set list from the same show…

Comparison Is Violence Setlist
Five Years (Performed as Two Years) /Spaceship Song Medley
Soul Love
Together (Silver Spoons Theme)
Moonage Daydream
Starman/Tiptoe Through The Tulips Medley
A Flower Falls (The Lily’s Revenge)
Lady Stardust (Performed with Lady Rizo)
Hang On To Yourself
I’ve Never Seen A Straight Banana (Written by Ernest Hare in 1926) (Recorded by Tiny Tim in 1976)
Suffragette City
Lady Stardust
Rock N’ Roll Suicide

Encore
Fill Your Heart
“Heroes”

I’m sure you all know that Fill Your Heart from Hunky Dory was also recorded by Tiny Tim. However, it was the Biff Rose original that informed Bowie’s version…in fact, today’s lyric quotation is from Biff’s version as Bowie changed that particular line to ‘Gentleness is everywhere’.

Go here for more details regarding the London run of Comparison Is Violence or The Ziggy Stardust Meets Tiny Tim Songbook.